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Sound
SOUND, a. [L. sanus.]
1. Entire; unbroken; not shaky, split or defective; as sound timber.
2. Undecayed; whole; perfect, or not defective; as sound fruit; a sound apple or melon.
3. Unbroken; not bruised or defective; not lacerated or decayed; as a sound limb.
4. Not carious; not decaying; as a sound tooth.
5. Not broken or decayed; not defective; as a sound ship.
6. Whole; entire; unhurt; unmutilated; as a sound body.
7. Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; having all the organs complete and in perfect action; as a sound body; sound health; a sound constitution; a sound man; a sound horse.
8. Founded in truth; firm; strong; valid; solid; that cannot be overthrown or refuted; as sound reasoning; a sound argument; a sound objection; sound doctrine; sound principles.
9. Right; correct; well founded; free form error; orthodox. II Tim 1. Let my heart be sound in thy statutes. Psa 119.
10. Heavy; laid on with force; as sound strokes; a sound beating.
11. Founded in right and law; legal; valid; not defective; that cannot be overthrown; as a sound title to land; sound justice.
12. Fast; profound; undisturbed; as sound sleep.
13. Perfect, as intellect; not broken or defective; not enfeebled by age or accident; not wild or wandering; not deranged; as a sound mind; a sound understanding or reason.
SOUND, adv. Soundly; heartily. So sound he slept that nought might him awake.
SOUND, n. The air bladder of a fish.
SOUND, n. [L. natatio. can this name be given to a narrow sea because wild beasts were accustomed to pass it by swimming, like Bosporus; or is the word from the root of sound, whole, denoting a stretch, or narrowness, from stretching, like straight?] A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the main land and an isle; or a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as the sound which connect the Baltic with the ocean, between Denmark and Sweden; the sound that separates Long Island from the main land of New York and Connecticut.
SOUND, n. [See the following verb.] An instrument which surgeons introduce into the bladder, in order to discover whether there is a stone in the viscus or not.
SOUND, v.t. [L. sonus, Eng. sound, the primary sense of which is to stretch or reach.]
1. To try, as the depth of water and the quality of the ground, by sinking a plummet or lead, attached to a line on which are marked the number of fathoms. The lower end of the lead is covered with tallow, by means of which some portion of the earth, sand, gravel, shells, etc. of the bottom, adhere to it and are drawn up. By these means, and the depth of water and the nature of the bottom, which are carefully marked on good charts, seamen may know how far a ship is from land in the night or in thick weather, and in many cases when the land is too remote to be visible.
2. To introduce a sound into the bladder of a patient, in order to ascertain whether a stone is there or not. When a patient is to be sounded-
3. To try; to examine; to discover or endeavor to discover that which lies concealed in another's breast; to search out the intention, opinion, will or desires. I was in jest, and by that offer meant to sound your breast. I've sounded my Numidians man by man.
SOUND, v.i. To use the line and lead in searching the depth of water. The shipmen sounded, and found it twenty fathoms. Acts 28.
SOUND, n. The cuttle fish.
SOUND, n. [L. sonus, from sonom to sound, sing, rattle, beat, etc. This may be a dialectical variation of L. tonus, tono, which seems to be allied to L. teneo.]
1. Noise; report; the object of hearing; that which strikes the ear; or more philosophically, an impression of the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air, caused by a collision of bodies or by other means; as the sound of a trumpet or drum; the sound of a human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp sound; a high sound.
2. A vibration of air caused by a collision of bodies or other means, sufficient to affect the auditory nerves when perfect. Some persons are so entirely dear that they cannot hear the loudest sounds. Audible sounds are such as are perceptible by the organs of hearing. Sounds not audible to men, may be audible to animals of more sensible organs.
3. Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else. It is the sense and not the sound, that must be the principle.
SOUND, v.i.
1. To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a particular effect. We say, an instrument sounds well or ill; it sound shrill; the voice sound harsh. And first taught speaking trumpet how to sound.
2. To exhibit by sound or likeness of sound. This relation sounds rather like a fiction that a truth.
3. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published. From you sounded out the word of the Lord. I Thess. 1.
TO SOUND IN DANGER, in law. is when there is not specific value of property in demand to serve as a rule of damages, as in actions of tort or trespass, as distinguished from actions of debt, _ c.
SOUND, v.t.
1. To cause to make a noise; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn.
2. To utter audibly; as, to sound a note with the voice.
3. To play on; as, to sound an instrument.
4. To order or direct by a sound; as, to sound a retreat.
5. To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to reported; as, to sound one's praise.
6. To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; as, to sound one's praise.
sound appears in definitions for these words:
A Able-bodied Absonous Absurd Absurdity Accent Accessory Accord Acoustic Acoustics Acuteness Ad Addition Affinity Agnomination Air Alarm Altisonant Anacamptic Annomination Answer Antimony Antiphonal Aphthong Apitpat Applause Argentina Armipotent Armisonous Arpeggio Articulate Asperity Assonance Assonant Attention Attune Attuned Attuning Audience Auscultation Babble Babbling Barytone Base Baseness Bass Bastinade Bawl Bawling Beating Beautiful Beauty Belabor Belie Bell Bellow Bellowing Berattle Bethump Bid Bigsounding Blaast Blest Blow Blowing Blown Bo Bom Bomb Bombast Bombastic Bombilation Bone Boom Bosporus Bottom Bottomless Bounce Bow Bray Break Breathe Bridegroom Bull-fight Burbast Burst Buzz Buzzing C Cacophony Cadency Call Carriage Carry Catacoustics Cataphonics Catheter Celerity Chain Chamade Change Chant Chanter Charge Charm Chart Chatter Chattering Chime Chiming Chink Chop Chord Circumflex Clack Clacking Clamor Clang Clangor Clangorous Clangous Clank Clap Clarichord Clash Clatter Clattering Clavichord Clear Click Clink Clinking Closest Cluck Combination Compass Comportment Concent Concinnity Concord Condition Confine Conformation Confuse Conserve Conserved Consonance Consonant Consonous Construction Contemporary Convey Coo Cooing Cornet Corrupt Cough Counternoise Counterpoint Crack Cracking Crash Crashing Creak Creaking Crepitate Crepitation Croak Croaking Cry Cure Cured Curing Damage Damp Damper Dance Dancing Dead Deaf Deafen Deafly Deafness Decay Decayed Decaying Declination Deep Degree Delation Delicate Delve Denomination Descend Descent Diacoustic Diacoustics Diatonic Die Digamma Din Ding-dong Diph-thong Diphthongal Direct Disagreeable Disagreeableness Discord Discordance Discordancy Discordant Discrepance Discrepancy Discretion Displode Dissonance Distinction Distinguish Ditone Double Down Drear Drone Droning Drub Drubbed Drubbing Dulcet Dumb Dumbness Ear Ear-piercing Earthquake Echo Echoed Echoing Echometer Echometry Eclectic Electricity Elevate Elevated Elision Eloquence Emissary Empty Entertain Enunciatory Eolian Epulotic Equisonance Eucrasy Euharmonic Euphonic Euphony Evangelic Evaporate Excellence Exfoliation Explode Explore Explosion Expression Expressiveness Extend F Faint Fall False Fanfare Far Fast Fathom Fathoming Feeble Feel Felt Fife Find Firmness Fizz Flat Flatness Flatten Fool Foolish Foppery Form Fragor Full Fullness Fundamental Fustian G Gabble Gabbler Gabbling Gape Generate Generation Generator Gladden Good Grate Grating Grave-stone Gravity Greatness Gride Grind Groan Groaning Growl Grumble Grunt Grunting Gurgling Guttural Ha Hail Hale Halleluiah Halsening Handlead Harm Harmonical Harmonics Harmonious Harmoniously Harmonize Harmonometer Harmony Harp Harsh Harshly Harshness Hautboy Heal Healed Healer Healing Health Healthfulness Healthiness Healthy Hear Hearing Hearty Heathful Hem Heptachord Hexachord High Hiss Hissing Hissingly Hoarse Hoarsely Hoarseness Hold Hollow Hollow-hearted Homophony Hoop Hornpipe Horrisonous Howl Howling Hum Humming Humming-bird Hurt Husky Huso Hydrography I Ichthyocol Ill Illogical Illogicalness Imitate Imperfect Import Inarticulate Inarticulation Inaudible Inconsonance Inconsonancy Incorrupt Increase Indiscreet Indistinct Infatuate Infirm Injudicious Injure Injury Insalutary Insane Insincere Instrument Integrity Interval Intonate Intonation Intone Irrelative Isinglass J Jangle Jangling Jar Jargle Jarring Jesting Jews-harp Jimmers Jingle Jingling Judgment Judicious Judiciousness K Kaun Keep Klick Knap Knell Knit Knoll L La Labor Lameness Language Lay Lead Legislative Lengthen Letter Lie Liquid Lodging Long Loud Loudly Loudness Low Lowness Lute M Main Manicordon Mate Mellow Melodious Melodiousness Melody Mend Microcoustic Microphone Mince Mind Mode Modification Modify Modulate Modulation Momentary Monochord Monophthong Monotone Monotony Morbid Mort Mortifying Mourn Muffle Multisonous Mumble Mumbled Mumbling Mummy Murder Murmur Murmuringly Muse Music Musical Musically Mute Mutely Mutter N Name Narrow Narrows Nasal Nincompoop Noise Noisiness Noisy Non-complying Non-sane Note Notion Noun Numerous O Obdormition Obtuse Obtuseness Octachord Offensive On Onomatope Onset Operate Orthodox Orthodoxly Orthodoxness Orthodoxy Outsound Oxytone Parley Paronomasy Part Patter Pattering Payment Peal Pealed Pealing Peep Pentachord Perceivable Perceptible Percussion Peremptory Perfect Periosteum Person Petency Phonics Phonocamptic Phonolite Phonology Pipe Piping Plaintive Pleasure Plumb Plummet Point Poisonous Poisonousness Policy Poly Polyphonic Polyphonism Pop Possess Power Practice Preservative Preserve Previous Principle Prison Propagate Propagation Prytane Pulse Pur Purl Q Qualify Quaver Quavering Quibble Quiesce Quiescence Quiescent R Racket Raise Ransomless Ranting Rattle Rattlesnake Rattling Raucity Re-echoed Read Reboation Recognize Redintegration Remurmur Remurmuring Repair Repaired Repairing Reparable Reparation Reparative Repealable Repercussion Repetition Replication Report Resilience Resonance Resonant Resound Resounded Resounding Restoration Result Reverberant Reverberate Reverberating Reverberation Rhyme Rhythm Ribroast Ribroasted Ribroasting Rich Rime Ring Ringing Rise Roach Roar Roaring Robust Robustness Rote Rotten Rough Roughness Rudiment Rumble Rumbling Rustle Rustling S Sage Same Sameness Sanable Sane Sanity Saying Scale Scranch Scrape Screak Second Sedulous Semi-vocal Semi-vowel Semiquaver Semitone Sense Senseless Sensible Sensibleness Sharp Sharpen Shout Shrill Shrillness Shrilly Sibilant Sibilation Signal Significant Signification Silence Silent Silliness Silver Simple Sing Singing Singingly Skill Slough Slumber Smack Snap Snarl Sneeze Soft Softness Solicit Solid Solidity Solidness Sonometer Sonoriferous Sonorific Sonorous Sonorously Sonorousness Sophism Sophistic Sophistical Sophistry Sordet Sordine Sound Sound-board Sounding Sounding-board Soundings Soundless Soundly Soundness Speak Speaking-trumpet Speech Spend Spoil Squeak Squeaker Squeaking Squealing Stanch Stanchness State Stave Staves Steal Steeple Stentorian Stentorophonic Stethescope Stick Still Stop Stopping Stormy Strain Strength Stridulous Strike Stroke Strong Stun Subtilty Suicide Superfluous Survey Suspension Sustain Swash Sweep Sweinmote Swim Swinge Swinging Syllable Symphonious Symphony T Tablature Taint Tang Tautologic Tehhee Temper Temperament Tense Tension Tenth Test Testament Tetrachord Theorbo Thin Third Thrash Thrashing Thrill Thunder Thundering Tiddle Timbreled Time Tin Ting Tingle Tinkle Tinkling Tivy Toll Tolling Tone Tongued Toot Tooth Toothed Tooting Transition Transmit Treble Tremble Trill Triphthong Tronco Trump Trumpet Trumpeted Trumpeter Trust Tucketsonance Tumid Tumult Tune Tuned Tuning Twang Twanging Twitter Twittering Tymbal U Undulation Undulatory Unfathomable Unfathomably Unfathomed Ungrateful Unharmonious Unhealthy Unison Unisonance Unite Univocal Unmaimed Unphilosophic Unphilosophically Unsincere Unsonable Unsound Unsounded Unsoundly Unwarranted Unwhole Up Utter Utterance V Valid Validity Vast Ventiloquous Verberation Vibration Violoncello Vitals Vocalizing Vocally Voice Vowel W Wainscot Warble Warranty Water Way Weal Well-water Wezand Wheeze Whinny Whippowil Whirring Whisper Whistle Whistled Whistling Whiz Whizzing Whole Wholesome Whur Windy Wisdom Wit Word Wound Write X Y Z
A Able-bodied Absonous Absurd Absurdity Accent Accessory Accord Acoustic Acoustics Acuteness Ad Addition Affinity Agnomination Air Alarm Altisonant Anacamptic Annomination Answer Antimony Antiphonal Aphthong Apitpat Applause Argentina Armipotent Armisonous Arpeggio Articulate Asperity Assonance Assonant Attention Attune Attuned Attuning Audience Auscultation Babble Babbling Barytone Base Baseness Bass Bastinade Bawl Bawling Beating Beautiful Beauty Belabor Belie Bell Bellow Bellowing Berattle Bethump Bid Bigsounding Blaast Blest Blow Blowing Blown Bo Bom Bomb Bombast Bombastic Bombilation Bone Boom Bosporus Bottom Bottomless Bounce Bow Bray Break Breathe Bridegroom Bull-fight Burbast Burst Buzz Buzzing C Cacophony Cadency Call Carriage Carry Catacoustics Cataphonics Catheter Celerity Chain Chamade Change Chant Chanter Charge Charm Chart Chatter Chattering Chime Chiming Chink Chop Chord Circumflex Clack Clacking Clamor Clang Clangor Clangorous Clangous Clank Clap Clarichord Clash Clatter Clattering Clavichord Clear Click Clink Clinking Closest Cluck Combination Compass Comportment Concent Concinnity Concord Condition Confine Conformation Confuse Conserve Conserved Consonance Consonant Consonous Construction Contemporary Convey Coo Cooing Cornet Corrupt Cough Counternoise Counterpoint Crack Cracking Crash Crashing Creak Creaking Crepitate Crepitation Croak Croaking Cry Cure Cured Curing Damage Damp Damper Dance Dancing Dead Deaf Deafen Deafly Deafness Decay Decayed Decaying Declination Deep Degree Delation Delicate Delve Denomination Descend Descent Diacoustic Diacoustics Diatonic Die Digamma Din Ding-dong Diph-thong Diphthongal Direct Disagreeable Disagreeableness Discord Discordance Discordancy Discordant Discrepance Discrepancy Discretion Displode Dissonance Distinction Distinguish Ditone Double Down Drear Drone Droning Drub Drubbed Drubbing Dulcet Dumb Dumbness Ear Ear-piercing Earthquake Echo Echoed Echoing Echometer Echometry Eclectic Electricity Elevate Elevated Elision Eloquence Emissary Empty Entertain Enunciatory Eolian Epulotic Equisonance Eucrasy Euharmonic Euphonic Euphony Evangelic Evaporate Excellence Exfoliation Explode Explore Explosion Expression Expressiveness Extend F Faint Fall False Fanfare Far Fast Fathom Fathoming Feeble Feel Felt Fife Find Firmness Fizz Flat Flatness Flatten Fool Foolish Foppery Form Fragor Full Fullness Fundamental Fustian G Gabble Gabbler Gabbling Gape Generate Generation Generator Gladden Good Grate Grating Grave-stone Gravity Greatness Gride Grind Groan Groaning Growl Grumble Grunt Grunting Gurgling Guttural Ha Hail Hale Halleluiah Halsening Handlead Harm Harmonical Harmonics Harmonious Harmoniously Harmonize Harmonometer Harmony Harp Harsh Harshly Harshness Hautboy Heal Healed Healer Healing Health Healthfulness Healthiness Healthy Hear Hearing Hearty Heathful Hem Heptachord Hexachord High Hiss Hissing Hissingly Hoarse Hoarsely Hoarseness Hold Hollow Hollow-hearted Homophony Hoop Hornpipe Horrisonous Howl Howling Hum Humming Humming-bird Hurt Husky Huso Hydrography I Ichthyocol Ill Illogical Illogicalness Imitate Imperfect Import Inarticulate Inarticulation Inaudible Inconsonance Inconsonancy Incorrupt Increase Indiscreet Indistinct Infatuate Infirm Injudicious Injure Injury Insalutary Insane Insincere Instrument Integrity Interval Intonate Intonation Intone Irrelative Isinglass J Jangle Jangling Jar Jargle Jarring Jesting Jews-harp Jimmers Jingle Jingling Judgment Judicious Judiciousness K Kaun Keep Klick Knap Knell Knit Knoll L La Labor Lameness Language Lay Lead Legislative Lengthen Letter Lie Liquid Lodging Long Loud Loudly Loudness Low Lowness Lute M Main Manicordon Mate Mellow Melodious Melodiousness Melody Mend Microcoustic Microphone Mince Mind Mode Modification Modify Modulate Modulation Momentary Monochord Monophthong Monotone Monotony Morbid Mort Mortifying Mourn Muffle Multisonous Mumble Mumbled Mumbling Mummy Murder Murmur Murmuringly Muse Music Musical Musically Mute Mutely Mutter N Name Narrow Narrows Nasal Nincompoop Noise Noisiness Noisy Non-complying Non-sane Note Notion Noun Numerous O Obdormition Obtuse Obtuseness Octachord Offensive On Onomatope Onset Operate Orthodox Orthodoxly Orthodoxness Orthodoxy Outsound Oxytone Parley Paronomasy Part Patter Pattering Payment Peal Pealed Pealing Peep Pentachord Perceivable Perceptible Percussion Peremptory Perfect Periosteum Person Petency Phonics Phonocamptic Phonolite Phonology Pipe Piping Plaintive Pleasure Plumb Plummet Point Poisonous Poisonousness Policy Poly Polyphonic Polyphonism Pop Possess Power Practice Preservative Preserve Previous Principle Prison Propagate Propagation Prytane Pulse Pur Purl Q Qualify Quaver Quavering Quibble Quiesce Quiescence Quiescent R Racket Raise Ransomless Ranting Rattle Rattlesnake Rattling Raucity Re-echoed Read Reboation Recognize Redintegration Remurmur Remurmuring Repair Repaired Repairing Reparable Reparation Reparative Repealable Repercussion Repetition Replication Report Resilience Resonance Resonant Resound Resounded Resounding Restoration Result Reverberant Reverberate Reverberating Reverberation Rhyme Rhythm Ribroast Ribroasted Ribroasting Rich Rime Ring Ringing Rise Roach Roar Roaring Robust Robustness Rote Rotten Rough Roughness Rudiment Rumble Rumbling Rustle Rustling S Sage Same Sameness Sanable Sane Sanity Saying Scale Scranch Scrape Screak Second Sedulous Semi-vocal Semi-vowel Semiquaver Semitone Sense Senseless Sensible Sensibleness Sharp Sharpen Shout Shrill Shrillness Shrilly Sibilant Sibilation Signal Significant Signification Silence Silent Silliness Silver Simple Sing Singing Singingly Skill Slough Slumber Smack Snap Snarl Sneeze Soft Softness Solicit Solid Solidity Solidness Sonometer Sonoriferous Sonorific Sonorous Sonorously Sonorousness Sophism Sophistic Sophistical Sophistry Sordet Sordine Sound Sound-board Sounding Sounding-board Soundings Soundless Soundly Soundness Speak Speaking-trumpet Speech Spend Spoil Squeak Squeaker Squeaking Squealing Stanch Stanchness State Stave Staves Steal Steeple Stentorian Stentorophonic Stethescope Stick Still Stop Stopping Stormy Strain Strength Stridulous Strike Stroke Strong Stun Subtilty Suicide Superfluous Survey Suspension Sustain Swash Sweep Sweinmote Swim Swinge Swinging Syllable Symphonious Symphony T Tablature Taint Tang Tautologic Tehhee Temper Temperament Tense Tension Tenth Test Testament Tetrachord Theorbo Thin Third Thrash Thrashing Thrill Thunder Thundering Tiddle Timbreled Time Tin Ting Tingle Tinkle Tinkling Tivy Toll Tolling Tone Tongued Toot Tooth Toothed Tooting Transition Transmit Treble Tremble Trill Triphthong Tronco Trump Trumpet Trumpeted Trumpeter Trust Tucketsonance Tumid Tumult Tune Tuned Tuning Twang Twanging Twitter Twittering Tymbal U Undulation Undulatory Unfathomable Unfathomably Unfathomed Ungrateful Unharmonious Unhealthy Unison Unisonance Unite Univocal Unmaimed Unphilosophic Unphilosophically Unsincere Unsonable Unsound Unsounded Unsoundly Unwarranted Unwhole Up Utter Utterance V Valid Validity Vast Ventiloquous Verberation Vibration Violoncello Vitals Vocalizing Vocally Voice Vowel W Wainscot Warble Warranty Water Way Weal Well-water Wezand Wheeze Whinny Whippowil Whirring Whisper Whistle Whistled Whistling Whiz Whizzing Whole Wholesome Whur Windy Wisdom Wit Word Wound Write X Y Z
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